594 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts , and Letters. 
REPORT OP THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 
The Library Committee desire to call attention to the report 
of the Library Committee presented at the'annual meeting of 
the Academy, December 29th, 1892, and to ask that those rec¬ 
ommendations be reaffirmed as follows: 
The recent binding and cataloging of^the books of the Academy 
make it important that a more suitable place be found for the 
storing of these books. The present location of the books in 
the cases of the Academy room is undesirable for a number of 
reasons, most important of which are the unsafe condition of 
the building, the ready access of dirt and fallen plaster to the 
shelves and the difficulty of providing proper protection from 
theft. It is impossible to keep from the books the finely disin¬ 
tegrated plaster which is constantly falling from the walls. The 
free access of the public to the rooms, owing to the use. of it 
for other purposes than those of the Academy, renders the 
proper protection of the books a very difficult matter. The 
cataloging of the books has shown that in the past many have 
been lost or stolen. Moreover, the space available is already 
crowded, while the library is growing through its numerous 
exchanges and through the completion of its existing series of 
journals. 
In view of the facts above stated, we earnestly recommend 
that an appeal be made to the legislature at its next session, for 
the erection of a building to accommodate the libraries of the 
State Historical Society and of the Academy. If these two 
libraries and the library of the State University, which is 
greatly in need of new quarters, were under one roof, it would 
be greatly to the advantage of those who make use of any or all 
of these libraries and it would make the collections thus prop¬ 
erly housed a just cause for state pride. 
Respectfully submitted, 
F. G. Hubbard, 
J. J. Blaisdell, 
C. D. Marsh, 
Library Committee. 
